For the sake of comparison, let's pretend you are walking down a city street in Virginia. What would you see? In a large city, you would get killed by traffic and would never travel on foot, but would instead travel in the comfort of your air conditioned car, I know, I know, WORK WITH ME HERE, PEOPLE. Say, for example, the downtown mall. What do you see? A large, shady cobblestoned walkway where friends and enemies alike can frolick amidst the shady trees and stores, vendor to vendor, with their mudhouse coffee clutched tight in their carefree fists. The birds would be singing. The trees would be singing. The assorted hippies would be singing. Now lets walk down a street in Quetzaltenango. A small, narrow sidewalk lining streets filled nose-to-nose with honking cars and minibuses. The
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